I need to keep a thread of all the witticisms my British friends drop

Just now, talking about a conspicuously fit guy: "Like a condom full of walnuts"

https://twitter.com/skooookum/status/1955705723184103726

About Jacinda Ardern: "Could eat an apple through a tennis racquet"

Pakistanis are not weird, Europeans are weird. Australian aboriginals ritually gang rape prepubescent girls, 30% of Africans in convenience surveys *admit* to having raped, Amerindians set records for child pregnancies, Gazan civilians came through the fences to join the raping

https://twitter.com/jonatanpallesen/status/1954206583849697292

Lotta people saying I'm wrong about the Gazans. Ok. Maybe it was just Hamas raping.

Bus just disgorged 50 "inner city" youth onto quiet exurb playground, 17yos now brachiating over play equipment, yuppie parents scattering with toddlers like leaves before a sudden wind This is the noise from 110 yards away

Reading about Ram Air Turbines after the Air India 171 crash and came across this puzzling picture of Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303. How is the aircraft airborne after "both engines and generators failed due to a belly landing"? Ok, they landed without landing gear, skidded for 18 seconds, and decided to take off again for a go around. How does that happen?

The Rhodesian Bush War doesn't get enough play as one of the great odysseys of the West. More romantic than Vietnam because it was farm boys defending civilization. More heroic than the World Wars because it was mostly teams of four engaged in McGuyver-esque sabotage. The kill ratios were wild, up to 60:1. Even when SAS were ambushed they often as not turned the tables and eliminated their numerically superior attackers. A few thousand of these guys could roll up Africa if the UN got out of the way.

Simultaneously across the West, "Mental health" has emerged as the free money glitch. Australia has free home retrofits for kids with "ADHD". The UK gives parents free cars. In the US there's a "1 in 5" mental health "crisis" conveniently tied to the employment of ed specialists The private school in my neighborhood hired a woman to run it, acquired a DEI department, and abandoned all academic rigor. Preteen boys are soporized with schoolmarm slop, and when their marks suffer, they're "diagnosed" and referred to specialists

https://x.com/ElonBachman/status/1887876631521542151

Johannesburg, run by the openly Marxist and anti-white African National Congress, is making it de facto illegal to install security cameras and making it de jure illegal to share videos of criminals, even of crimes in progress.

https://x.com/MisterPikester/status/1896120844092580238

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the mandarin championing this bylaw is a white woman. She says that banning the dissemination of videos depicting crime will "help in the fight against crime"

Some good descriptions of what today would be called "virtue signalling" in this chapter on Ursuline nuns. Previous passages also capture the sexual fantasies, somewhat adjacent to hybristophilia, that ironically attended chastity. This sort of gal is instantly recognizable today, disowning MAGA family members or marching for tr*nnies

Funny that macho is considered to be masculine but more so. After much time in third world, I think they are near antonyms. Touchiness, desire for adoration, reactivity...these are feminine traits.

Perfect little immigration saga unfolding in Puerto Rico, observing all the dramatic unities for this genre...

miamiherald.com/news/local/imm… We have the smugglers: dumping Haitians on a tiny rock off the coast of Isla de Mona, itself a tiny island inhabited only by herpetic monkeys

Extremely right wing friend talks about what it's like on the inside to be a successful Ashkenazi financier. Says that beyond the intelligence, the characteristic traits are a somewhat neurotic hyperactivity and a bit of disregard for social convention... I watched him rise meteorically in his 20s, and it was true. He has a manic, self effacing good nature, and his days seem to be one long laugh. Twice he arrived in a new city, pressed bumptiously and good humoredly in every direction, and within months knew everyone

It goes under remarked-upon that British colonial subjects were immediately granted civil rights The British didn't know how to govern a possession (Ascension Island) of 380, so they declared it to be a ship and left it to the Admiralty

Israel "waiting for the green light from the Americans" before the 1967 war..."combing word by word through a column in Newsweek'

Apparently Israel was content not to broadcast the fact that it had destroyed Egypt's air force, because it thought the UN would not intervene as long as Israel was believed to be losing

England's eugenic rise began as early as the 1300s

https://twitter.com/ElonBachman/status/1766283526784037085

The Medieval English were already individualistic

The 1976 Soweto student uprising is mythologized as an early noble skirmish in the fight against Apartheid. But the commencing act of violence was a student stabbing a female teacher with a screwdriver because he didn't want to learn Afrikaans. Much stoning of police and police vehicles. Much revolutionary not doing of homework.

A weird result of 60 years of sexual egalitarian whitewashing is that every adult learns about gender differences via a series of private relationship crises--more or less excruciating--rather than that knowledge being embodied in institutions, ritual, and prejudice Guys and gals are constantly navigating what feel--from the inside--like baroque personal Odysseys, when from the outside it's just bog standard "women be shopping and boys be philandering"

Belloc argued that where you have training and social cohesion, infantry beats cavalry. But when you lose cohesion, better to have cavalry. A Quora poster had a good line: "Pikes didn't make the Swiss famous; the Swiss made pikes famous"

Was the French Revolution a race war, a slaughter of Nordics by Alpines?
Madison Grant thought that stereoscopic vision evolved to allow accurate brachiation. Similar to @MarkChangizi's theory that it evolved to see through leaf clutter

Cannibalism in Haiti in the 1880s

https://twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/1768347909014356085

Haitians disinterring and eating babies

Females outnumbering males three to one in a Congo village. Plausible? Inordinate attention to hair

Eeben Barlow recruited an informant by having her fortune teller foresee that she'd be in a fender bender, that her lucky number was 777, & that a stranger would solve her money problems

Barlow's team then rear ended her car & arranged for her to meet Barlow in a hotel room #777 @EebenB is on Twitter. Maybe you consider his services for your next geopolitical transaction.